According to
Alison Staudinger, what are the core beliefs of the anarchist? What are the
anarchist’s goals? Why is the state unnecessary? Is anarchism about chaos and
violence? Why not? What role does property play in crime production? Why,
according to Emma Goldman, cannot religion and government keep their promise
to make people free?

In his
illustration of the likely behavior of a group of people shipwrecked
on a deserted island, to what does Alexander Berkman attribute the division
of society into social groups?

According to Andrew
Austin’s lecture on anarchism, what are the anarchist’s criticisms of
authority? According to anarchists, state societies represent
a hierarchy of authorized political control over what types of activities?
What are the characteristics of state societies? When do the state and law
appear in human prehistory/history? When do the institutions of the police
and prisons—that is the formal and professional criminal justice
system—appear in prehistory/history?

What are the
three types of rights T.H. Marshall’s identifies in his “new liberalism”? Know
how to define each type of right. How does these compare to Erich Fromm and
Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between negative and positive liberty? Which most
approximates which? What are the four freedoms Roosevelt identifies? How do
these go beyond classical liberalism? How does Roosevelt’s vision of freedom
compare with that of Thomas Paine?

Professor Kaye
noted in class that three presidents routinely top the list of greatest
presidents when historians are polled. Who are these presidents?In his lecture, Professor Kaye
discussed the idea of American exceptionalism and contrasted his view with
that of modern conservatism. Which of the following best describes Professor
Kaye’s view of American exceptionalism? According to Professor Kaye, what is the main effect and likely the purpose of “right to
work” laws? How did Roosevelt change America?

High economic
growth fuelled through capital spending can hide a number of underlying
economic problems. What were some of these problems, according to Professor
Yunsun Huh? What is the link between development and freedom? What are forms
of “unfreedom” Amartya Sen
identifies?

What are the arguments
central to AmartyaSen’s
capability approach? What is the link between freedom and development? What
is capability? What are functionings? What is focal
space? The difference between
“functioning” and “capability” in Sen’s thinking is
similar to the difference between an achievement, on the one hand, and the
freedom to achieve something, on the other. Know this distinction. Is
freedom, according to Sen, primarily the maximization of choices without
regard to their quality and people’s values? What is authentic self-direction?

What is the
global assembly line? What is a multinational or transnational corporation? What
is an export processing zone? What is the idea
behind the feminization of labor? What impact do these
changes have on the countries involved?

What is the
difference between order theory and power-conflict theory? What approach has
been most characteristic of mainstream social science? What is the logic of
Robert Park’s theory of assimilation? What are the different types of
assimilation according to Milton Gordon? Who was Horace Kallen and what is
his justification for cultural pluralism?

Who was Booker
T. Washington? Who was Marcus Garvey? Who were Lloyd Warner and Gunnar Myrdal?
What is the caste school of race relations? What did the Marxist scholar Erik
Olin Wright find in his empirical studies of the intersection of race and
class?

Which important
organization did WEB DuBois play a key in establishing? What are the main
points of DuBois’ argument concerning American exceptionalism? What was
DuBois relationship to socialism and communism? What did WEB Du Bois mean by
the wages of whiteness? What is double consciousness? What is the Talented
Tenth?

What is the
difference between colonialism and neocolonialism? What is the difference
between external and internal colonialism? What is Pan-Africanism? What is a
split labor market?